Roundtable: Pluralizing Social Reproduction Approaches

Abstract

This Roundtable will set the stage to Pluralize Social Reproduction Approaches and discusses topics from the Special Issue published in "Social Politics" in early 2026. We focus on questions such as to what extent is the concept of social reproduction (SR) able to account for multiple complex experiences of life-making across the world, and to what extent and in what ways does it need pluralizing? While feminist debates on SR, as a concept, framework and praxis have become more prominent, we enquire whether much of this work affects the ways in which we understand inequalities as well as the agency of those engaged in this work. We discuss empirical research from and on the Global South and Global North to investigate if our terms, frameworks and concepts are applicable in different epistemic communities and can add to discussions in Feminist International Political Economy to expand our understanding of global capitalism.

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